The AI Book “Flood”: Separating Hype from Reality in Publishing

In an era when anyone can generate a book, being able to create one worth reading becomes more valuable than ever.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/10/04/ai-generated-books-publishing-industry-impact/

#AI #PublishingControversies #AIpublishinghypeandreality #AIgeneratedbooksflood

Beyond Fear: Why Publishing Must Embrace AI as a Tool, Not a Threat

Publishing must move beyond fear to engage thoughtfully with AI. It's a tool, not a threat—and human choices, not technology, determine outcomes.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/08/12/beyond-fear-publishing-must-embrace-ai-as-tool-not-threat/

#AI #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #AIandpublishing #FearofAIinpublishing
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Reimagining Book Publishing in the AI Era: From Resistance to Renaissance

An exploration of how the book publishing industry might embrace AI-driven transformation as an opportunity for renewal and growth…
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/08/03/reimagining-book-publishing-in-the-ai-era-from-resistance-to-renaissance/

#AI #PublishingControversies #AIapocalypse #AIinpublishing #McKinseyAI
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Can We Please Stop Pretending Listening To Audiobooks Is Reading?

Why listening to audiobooks isn't reading: exploring the cognitive differences between auditory and visual text processing in literacy development.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/07/23/audiobooks-are-not-reading-why-listening-differs-from-reading/

#Audiobooks #DigitalAudio #PublishingControversies #areaudiobooksreadorlistenedto #listeningvsreading
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The Sarah J. Maas Model: How Authors Are Bypassing Publishers in the IP Gold Rush

How Sarah J. Maas’s IMG deal signals a seismic shift: authors now bypass publishers to control lucrative IP rights, leaving traditional publishing behind.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/07/01/sarah-j-maas-model-authors-bypassing-publishers-ip-gold-rush/

#IPRights #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #publishersandIP #SarahJMaasIMGDeal
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How Publishing Lost James Bond and What It Means for the Industry

In the future, Fleming's original James Bond novels may be remembered as historical curiosities rather than the foundation of one of entertainment's most valuable properties.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/06/29/how-publishing-lost-james-bond/

#PublishingControversies #JamesBond #JamesBondfilms #JamesBondgame #JamesBondnovels
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Streaming TV Beats Combined Broadcast and Cable – Why Publishing Must Embrace the Inevitable

Why publishing must learn from TV's streaming milestone and embrace AI-powered subscription models before tech disruptors claim the future.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/06/17/streaming-revolution-publishing-embrace-inevitable/

#AI #Digitalsubscription #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #audiobookstreaming
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The Mattel-OpenAI Partnership: A Wake-Up Call for Trade Publishing

Mattel-OpenAI's AI toy partnership challenges trade publishing to embrace AI for interactive storytelling or risk obsolescence.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/06/16/mattel-openai-partnership-trade-publishing-impact/

#AI #ChildrensBooks #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #MattelAIpartnership
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AI and the Workforce: Implications for Publishing from PwC’s 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer

The latest PwC report is bad news for the Luddite Fringe.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/06/07/ai-and-the-workforce-implications-for-publishing-from-pwcs-2025-global-ai-jobs-barometer/

#AI #PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #AIandjobs #AIpublishing
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The Enduring Appeal of Murder Mysteries: Neuroscience, Female Sleuths, and the Legacy and AI Reincarnation of Agatha Christie

A 2012 study found mystery readers scored higher in empathy and analytical thinking,…
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/05/27/the-enduring-appeal-of-murder-mysteries-neuroscience-female-sleuths-and-the-legacy-and-ai-reincarnation-of-agatha-christie/

#AI #PublishingControversies #AgathaChristieAIwritingcourse #AnneRAllen #cozymysteries
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Amazon is an AI Tech Company. Why Does it Get a Free Pass from the UK’s Publishers Association and the Society of Authors?

Amazon now has nailed its publishing industry AI colours to the mast. We cannot have one rule for Amazon and another for…
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/05/18/amazon-is-an-ai-tech-company-why-does-it-get-a-free-pass-from-the-uks-publishers-association-and-the-society-of-authors/

#AI #Amazon #PublishingControversies #UK #AInarration
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What is “western publishing”, anyway?

Trade fiction, academic works, comics, audiobooks and digital serials are all being reimagined- from Tokyo’s manga cafés to Dubai’s audiobook studios. And all too often it is the "west" that is playing catch-up and copy-cat.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/05/13/what-is-western-publishing-anyway/

#PublishingBrief #PublishingControversies #Qatar #DohaInternationalBookFair #westernpublishing
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Two Roads Diverged in the AI Woods: American Pragmatism vs. British Bluster

So the AAP presented the court with a series of existing (AI publishing) deals - over 65 examples, collectively valued at $2.5 billion, with projections soaring to $30 billion over the next decade.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/05/03/two-roads-diverged-in-the-ai-woods-american-pragmatism-vs-british-bluster/

#AI #PublishingControversies #UK #USA #AssociationofAmericanPublishers
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Bound in Skin, Bound to History – The Macabre Legacy of Anthropodermic Books

Following his execution, Corder’s body was publicly dissected - a fate reserved for the most heinous criminals back then. (Don't tell Donald Trump, or we may seen another…
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/04/19/bound-in-skin-bound-to-history-the-macabre-legacy-of-anthropodermic-books/

#PublishingControversies #publishinghistory #Cruelpunishments #Humanshinbooks #Publishingsdarkside
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Anime’s Global Ascent: Brazil Offers A Lesson for Publishers

Publishers need to re-evaluate the issue of piracy. If content was legally unavailable in Brazil then, ethics aside, publishers suffered no material loss by manga and anime being distributed, and years on are reaping rewards that…
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/04/13/animes-global-ascent-brazil-offers-a-lesson-for-publishers/

#Brazil #GlobalPublishing #PublishingControversies #Anime #Brazilanime
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Gor Blimey, Guv’nor! Google Gemini ‘as ownly gone’n train’d its AI on Mary bloody Poppins! (Not an April 1 prank, sadly)

Most AIs know their centre from their center and their colour from their color, although when will they grasp it's…
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/04/02/gor-blimey-guvnor-google-gemini-as-ownly-gonen-traind-its-ai-on-mary-bloody-poppins-not-an-april-1-prank-sadly/

#AI #PublishingControversies #AIandBritishEnglish #NotanApril1stprank
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Human: Good. AI: Bad. Perception, Prejudice, and the Creative Landscape in the Age of AI

AI-produced audio slammed for its low quality was actually created by humans. Luddite Fringe, look away now!
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/03/29/human-good-ai-bad-perception-prejudice-and-the-creative-landscape-in-the-age-of-ai/

#AI #Audiobooks #PublishingControversies #AIaudiobooks #AIpublishing
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Taylor & Francis To Use AI For Translation. Society of Authors Gets Self-Righteous Again. Philip Pullam Was Spot On

Needless to say the SoA was like a lamb with two tails as it gleefully revelled in the Meta piracy site news.
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/03/28/taylor-francis-to-use-ai-for-translation-society-of-authors-gets-self-righteous-again-philip-pullam-was-spot-on/

#AI #PublishingControversies #AIpublishing #MetaAILibGen #Metapiracysite
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The Publishing Industry’s Divergent Reactions to Amazon and AI Companies: A Study in Hypocrisy and Dependency

Joke of the Month: "The Trump-Vance FTC will never back down from taking on Big Tech" - US Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson. …
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2025/03/22/the-publishing-industrys-divergent-reactions-to-amazon-and-ai-companies-a-study-in-hypocrisy-and-dependency/

#AI #Amazon #PublishingControversies #AIandpublishing #AmazonFTC
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